The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-20
FORBIDDEN HONEY.
SERMON BY REV. DR.. TAlMAGE
IN THE TABERNACLE.

IN THE TABERNACLE.
Depicting and Injurious Books of the
PeriOd-The Popular Taste for Pare
Literature is Poisoned by the Scum of
the Publishing House.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 16.-''Seven hundred
and eighty one thousand three hundred
and sixteen dollars and twenty-fOur cents
have been paid cash down III this church
for religious uses and Christian work dur
ing the nineteen years or my ministry"
said the Rev. L. De Witt Talmage, d. D..
in answer to the misrepresentation that
have been going through some of the re-
li@iOus papers depreciating the work of
the Brooklyn Tabernacle After giving
out the hymn:
Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come
DR. Talmage preached a sermon, the sub
ject of which was Forbidden Honey
the text being Samuel xiv, 43: Il did
but taste little honey with the end OF
the rod that was in my hand, and, 10, 1
must die" DR.. Talmage said;
The honey bee is most ingenious
architect, Christopher Wren among IN
sects, a geometer drawing hexagons and
pentagons, freebooter robbing the fields
OF pollen and aroma, a wOndrOuS crea-
ture of God whose biography, written by
Huber and Swammerdam, is an enChant-
ment for any lover of nature. Virgil
celebrated the bee in his fable of Aris-
t9eus, and Moses, and Samuel, and David,
and Solomon, and jeremiah, and Ezekiel
and St. John used the delicacies OF bee
manufacture as a Bible symbol. A
miracle of formation is the bee: five eyes,
two tongues, the outer having sheath of
protection, hairs on all sides of its tiny
body to brush up the particles of flowers,
its fight so straight that all the world
knows of the bee line. The honey comb
Is palace such as no one but God could
plan, and the honey bee construct;
its cells sometimes dOrmitory and
sometimes a storehouse and sometimes a
cemetery. These winged toilers first
make eight strips of wax, and by their
antenne, which are to them hammer,
and chisel, and square, and plumb line,
fashion them for use. Two and two,
these workers shape the wall. If an &C
-cident happen they put up buthesses or
extra beams to remedy the damage.
When about the year 1915 an insect, be-
fore unknown, in the night time attacked
the bee hives all over Europe, and the
men who owned them were in vain try
ing TO plan something to keep out the in
Tader that was the terror of the bee
hives of the continent, it was found that
everywhere the bees had arranged for
their own protection, and built before
their honeycombs an especial wall of WAX
with port hole through which the bees
might go to and fro, but not large
enough to admit the winged combatant,
called the Sphinx Atropos.
Do you know that the swarming of the
bees is divineiy directed? The mother
bee starts for new home and because of
this the other bees of the hive get into
an excitement which raises the heat OF
the hive some four degrees, and they
must die unless they leave their heated
apartments, and they follow the mother
bee and alght on the branch of tree,
and cling to each other and hold on until
Il committee of two or three have eg-
ulored the region and found the hollow
of q tree or rock not far off from 6
stream of water, and they here set up g
new colony, and ply their aromatic IN
dustries. and give themselves to the
manufacture of the saccharine edible
But who can tell ihe chemistry OF thai
mixture OF sweetness, part of it the very
life of the bee, and part of 1t the life oi
the fields?
Plenty of this luscious product wa'
hanging in the woods of Beth-aven dur
ing the time of Saul and Jonathan. Then
army was in pursuit of an enemy that BY
Gods command must be exterminatcd
The soldiery were positively forbidden
to stop to eat anything until TN
work was done. If they disobeyeC
they were accursed. Coming throuy i
the woods they found place where tn
bees had been busy, great honey man
ufactory. Honey gathered in the hollow
of the trees until it had overtlowed upol
the ground in great profusion OF sweet
ness. All the army obeyed orders ant
touched it not save Jonathan, and he no
knowing the military order about absti
nence dipped the end of stick he ha
in his hand into the candied liquid, am
as. yellow, and brown, and tempting
it glowsd on the end of the stick he pu
it to his mouth and ate the honey. Judg
ment fell upon him, and but for specla
intervention he would have been slain
mistake: II did but taste little hone
with the end Of the rod that was in IN
hand. and To- must die" Alas, wha
multitudes of people in all ages hav
been damaged by forbidden honey, b
which I mean temptation delicious an
attractive, but damaging and destructive
Literature fascinating but healthlt
comes in this category. Where ON
Al c,.l I<~l &c V1nI
there are 100 made up of rhetoric;
. trash consumed with avldlty. VINE
the boy on the cars comes through wit
a pile of publications look over the titl'
and notice that nine out of ten OF II
books are depicting and injurious. \
the way from New York to Chicago {
New Orleans notice that obJectlonao
books dominate. Taste for pure liter
ture is poisoned by this scum of the pu
fishing house. Every book in which $
triumphs over virtue, or In which
glamour is thrown over dissipation,
which leaves you at its last line WI
less respect for the marriage institute
and less adherence for the paramour'
a depression of your own moral characte
That book bindery may be attractive, al
the plot dramatic and startling, and .
style of writing sweet as the honey tn
jonathan dipped up with his rod b
your best interests forbid it, your MOI
safety forbids it, your God forbids 1t, a
one taste of it may lead to such bad
suits that you may have to say at I
close of the experiment or at the close
a misimproved lifetime: u did but ta'
a little honey with the rod that was In
hand. and. 10, must die.
Corrupt literature is doing more too
Ter the disruption Of domestic life tn
s.,lv other cauan. ElopcnentS, mar
lreri-ues. sly correspondence. ictitiN
-aos given Al f-t' ice WINDOWS, G.,